Laura Abbot (edit name/settings)

Laura Abbot was born in Kansas City, Kansas, the eldest of three children. Her parents had tried for five years to have a child, and were thrilled when their daughter finally arrived, albeit during the Great Depression. Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, Abbot, a tomboy, spent a great deal of time with her grandmother, who expected her to change her behavior and become ladylike.

Abbot found college liberating, and worked hard to graduate in only three years. She became a teacher, and, for over twenty-five years taught eighth-and ninth-grade English. Abbot married a year after her college graduation with Mr. Schoffner, and had three children in the next ten years, before she and her husband divorced. She has since remarried, to a man with a daughter and custody of his orphaned nephew. Together they raised their combined five children, and now have thirteen grandchildren.

After Abbot retired from teaching, she began to write. She sold her first romance novel to Harlequin Enterprises in 1995. Harlequin has since published over a dozen of her novels, mainly in the SuperRomance category. Her novel, My Name is Nell was nominated for a Romantic Times Magazine award for Best Harlequin SuperRomance in 2003.

Bibliography

Single Novels
Mating for Life 1995/Mar
Trial Courtship 1999/May
A Summer Place 2002/Dec
Second Honeymoon 2005/Sep
A Letter for Annie 2009/Apr

Class Act Series
Class Act 1998/08
You're My Baby 2002/Apr

Marriage of Inconvenience Series Multi-Author
This Christmas 1996/Nov

Women Who Dare Series Multi-Author
Where There's Smoke... 1997/Jun

By the Year 2000: Marriage Series Multi-Author
The Wedding Vow 1998/Dec

Welcome to Riverbend Series Multi-Author
Homecoming 2000/Sep

Hometown U.S.A. Series Multi-Author
A Country Practice 2001/Feb
My Name is Nell 2003/Oct

9 Months Later Series Multi-Author
You're My Baby 2002/Apr

Single Father Series Multi-Author
The Wrong Man 2004/Mar

Everlasting Love Series Multi-Author
Stranger At The Door 2008/Aug

Antologies in collaboration
Sanctuary 2003/Dec (with Pamela Bauer, Judith Bowen, K.N. Casper, Brenda Novak and Caron Todd)
Baby in the House / My Name is Nell 2004/Jan (with Pamela Bauer)
Wrong Man / Daddy Quest 2004/May (with Lori Handeland)
Stranger at the Door / To Save a Family 2008/Oct (with Anna DeStefano)